We’ve been keeping an eye on Pussy Riot, from the start to the religious revolution to the circus of a trial and, finally, a justice blasphemy of a conviction, so we’ll keep updating you on some news you may have missed.
- Former New York Mayor Ed Koch congratulates the Russian authorities on a job well done and throws in his two cents, exploiting the Irish and the African Americans. Also, dancing to a protest prayer in a church was not “free speech” but “a hate crime.” Thanks, Ed. Thanks.
- Meanwhile, a Russian priest has quit the church. His open letter to Patriarch Kirill is going viral on the Russian internet, stating that he wants no association with a church that has “convicted itself” with “fundamentalism” by putting Pussy Riot in jail.
- Pussy Riot’s lawyer will filing an appeal next week.
- That’s good timing, because the goons are starting to get rough with our girls.
- The website of a Moscow court that convicted Pussy Riot has been hacked and trolled by AnonymousRussia. For four hours today, it displayed slogan “Putin’s thieving gang is plundering our country! Wake up, comrades!” along with a video of Bulgaria’s gloriously genderfuck pop star Azis. The Russian state-controlled television emphasizes that the hackers are “American Anonymous,” naturally, because all dissidents are foreign spies and banderlogs, but of course.
- Madonna will continue her Pussy Rioting.
- St Petesrbug Voina (Oleg, Leonid, Natalia, etc.) and Moscow Voina (Pussy Riot’s Nadia and Katya, Nadia’s husband Pyotr) are fighting again. Oh, goodie.
- Pussy Riot solidarity protestors in Germany could face up to three years imprisonment for “disturbing a religious establishment.”
- Seven of 30 poets, editors, former cultural officials and other peaceful protestors were taken away from the Russian consulate in Marseilles, France by cops in riot vans, to the shouts of ”Absurd!” and “Ridiculous!” They were arrested because “They are wearing balaclavas in a public space. It’s illegal,” ever since Sarkozy decided to oppress Muslim women and ban the niqab in public. Irony!
- In Berlin, the Spanish art collective Mentalgassi erect a Pussy Riot dome.
- In Moscow, guerilla activists have dressed several public monuments in balaclavas, including Pushkin in a public square and heroes of WWII at the metro.
- If you thought Kirill was bad, meet champ bigot Father Vsevolod Chaplin, who is “sort of like what you might get if Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson squeezed into the cassock of an Orthodox priest.”
- If you wan to buy Pussy Riot t-shirts and not get scammed, here’s a safe bet.
- Finally, here’s a little gem you may have missed last week: Peaceful Pussy Riot solidarity protestors and journalists getting manhandled off the church steps by guards and cops. No wonder more and more devout Eastern Orthodox Russians are going public to dissociate themselves with this madness.
